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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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